The Official Nonsense Thread

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National Theatre? Ooo lucky you! My brother & his wife went there (in one of their rare moments of attempting to get some culture instead of visiting other places to go to the same old shops every other city had) & loved it.

Alan Bennett - he's a good writer, but I would like to have words with him re The History Boys over its historical revisionism. There were no academic league tables in the early 1980s for schools to climb (that was a far later idea, John Major's I think, ironic considering he left school with only one O Level!) and the character of the openly gay Posner was downright offensive - any school kid "coming out" in the 1980s even to his mates would have sentenced themselves to a guaranteed eight hours a week day of being subjected to random intimidation & outright violence. There may have been Bronski Beat & Culture Club in the Top 10, but 80s Britain remained a very intolerant place.

I'm now battering through the second season of Game Of Thrones. Arya's been "rescued" of sorts by Tywin Lannister. Agh, please don't let her do anything stupid & blow it!